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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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PSALM 83
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God is importuned to confound the enemies of his people—Jehovah is the Most High over all the earth.
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<center><span class='small'>A SONG OR PSALM OF ASAPH.</span></center>
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Keep</span> not thou <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/83/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 28: 1.">silence</a>, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
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For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
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They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
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They have said, Come, and let us <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/83/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 74: 8; Jer. 11: 19.">cut</a> them off from <i>being</i> a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
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For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/83/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB tents.">tabernacles</a> of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
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Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot.  Selah.
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Do unto them as <i>unto</i> the Midianites; as <i>to</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/83/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 4: 15.">Sisera</a>, as <i>to</i> Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
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<i>Which</i> perished at En-dor: they became <i>as</i> dung for the earth.
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Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/83/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 8: 5.">Zebah</a>, and as Zalmunna:
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Who said, Let us take to ourselves the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/83/12a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB pastures; i.e. the land of Israel.">houses</a> of God in possession.
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O my God, make them like a <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/83/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 17: 13.">wheel</a>; as the <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/83/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 1: 4.">stubble</a> before the wind.
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As the fire burneth a <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/83/14a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB forest.">wood</a>, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
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So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
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Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/83/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 25: 14; D&C 71: 7; Moses 7: 15 (14-16).">perish</a>:
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That <i>men</i> may know that thou, whose name alone <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/83/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Jehovah.">JEHOVAH</a>, <i>art</i> the most <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/83/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 97: 9.">high</a> over all the earth.
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